Anything worth having has its price.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.